Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter launched an emotional tribute to his late brother Aaron Carter, “Hurts to Love You,” on Wednesday (Jan. 11). The ballad was accompanied by a video that includes footage of the siblings as kids, and a message from Nick on Instagram.
“All of us have somebody in our lives that it doesn’t matter what they do and the way unhealthy it hurts you continue to love them,” he wrote. “So I labored it out one of the simplest ways I understand how.”
Aaron, who struggled with substance and psychological well being points, died unexpectedly in November at age 34.
“Really feel like we’ve been by some wars collectively/ No one else may perceive/ Manner too many nightmares to recollect,” Carter sings over a spare, heartbeat-like beat. “All the time hoped your tomorrows/ Can be higher than the times earlier than/ I hoped you’d discover your highway to comply with/ To a spot you had been glad on this world,” he provides earlier than the heartbreaking refrain, “Cuz it hurts to like you, however I like you continue to/ Miss you with all my coronary heart you recognize I all the time will.”
Singer and TV persona Aaron Carter was discovered lifeless on Nov. 5. Whereas no explanation for loss of life has but been revealed, a spokesperson for the LAPD mentioned on the time {that a} “suspicious loss of life” had taken place on the handle of Carter’s residence.
Following his youthful brother’s loss of life, Nick shared a variety of photographs that includes Aaron from their childhood. “My coronary heart is damaged. Despite the fact that my brother and I’ve had an advanced relationship, my love for him has by no means ever pale,” he wrote on the time. “I’ve all the time held on to the hope that he would someway, sometime wish to stroll a wholesome path and ultimately discover the assistance that he so desperately wanted. Typically we wish to blame somebody or one thing for a loss, however the fact is that habit and psychological sickness is the actual villain right here.”
Take heed to “Hurts to Love You” and see Nick’s submit under.